Rainfall update
Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
Severe tropical cyclone Narelle made landfall on the Western Australian coast
- Severe tropical cyclone Narelle made its third landfall south of Coral Bay in Western Australia on 27 March bringing rainfall to much of the Western Australia's north and west and to parts of the Top End of the Northern Territory as it tracked across northern Australia and turned to the south-west.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 200 mm, and locally higher, were recorded across northern and western parts of Western Australia and isolated areas across the Cape York Peninsula and the north-eastern coast of Queensland and the Top End of the Northern Territory.
- A trough and cold front that moved across south-east Australia combined with a humid, unstable airmass to produce thunderstorms, some severe, leading to heavy rain over parts of the region.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 100 mm, and locally higher, were recorded across large parts of eastern Victoria, western and southern parts of Tasmania, south-eastern New South Wales and isolated western areas of South Australia.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 328.0 mm in the 24 hours to 9 am on 28 March at Winning in Western Australia during the passage of Severe tropical cyclone Narelle; this was also the highest weekly total at a Bureau gauge for the week ending 9 am on 30 March.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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